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President to visit Grand Island as his plan to allow more foreign beef imports proves unpopular in agriculture-rich state <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&utm_campaign=BN22326&utm_content=signup&utm_term=standfirst&utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Sign up for the Breaking News US email</a>Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Donald Trump will be in Nebraska later today, campaigning alongside Republican senator Pete Ricketts, in an attempt to salvage the GOP’s dwindling midterms campaign.The White House has defended a newly hired press aide who posed for a holiday photograph in 2021 <a href="https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1466969083652587531" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">wearing a “Fuck Joe Biden” T-shirt</a> and holding a rifle. Beni Rae Harmony, the new assistant White House press secretary, <a href="https://x.com/BeniRaeHarmony/status/2106155211504971796" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">revealed</a> on Friday that she was going to work for Donald Trump just days after covering him as a correspondent for Real America’s Voice, a partisan rightwing outlet <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/24/steve-bannon-war-room-real-americas-voice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">originally created</a> as a video podcast platform for the president’s former adviser Steve Bannon.Trump on Sunday named <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/jay-clayton-sworn-in-director-of-national-intelligence" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence</a>, to also serve as the new White House AI czar. Clayton, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/trump-jay-clayton-director-of-national-intelligence" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies</a>, previously served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and led the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term.The United States has removed ⁠its B-1 bombers from a ⁠British air base one week after five men were arrested nearby on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, a suspected plot that British prime minister Andy Burnham said was likely backed by Iran. The planes had been stationed at ⁠RAF Fairford, the preferred European base for US bombers 90 miles west of London, which had recently been used for US strikes on Iran. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/oct/05/donald-trump-nebraska-midterms-republicans-white-house-media-latest-news-updates" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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